Perceptual effects of plosive feature modification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 478-491

  Kapoor, Abhinauv ^a   Allen, Jont B ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; BURST FEATURES; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; PERCEPTUAL EFFECTS; PLOSIVE SOUNDS; PRECISE METHOD; PROCESSING METHOD; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SIGNAL TO NOISE;

EXPERIMENTS; IMPACT STRENGTH; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISUALIZATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CUES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84855939738     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3665991     Document Type: Article

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